[OpenIndiana-discuss] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch

[Christopher Chan]

On Wednesday, January 26, 2011 06:16 PM, Jonathan Adams wrote:
> We have infrastructure based on and supported by sendmail.
>
> I know that postfix does "everything" sendmail does ... but we have a
> lot of experience and history related to the Solaris version of
> Sendmail (and yes it is different from the one from sendmail.org)
>
> _IF_ you really want postfix to be there can we make it an alternative
> in the same way as network/physical:nwam and network/physical:default
> so as not to break compatibility, but add extra features?
>

I am not advocating replacing sendmail and yes, make it an alternative. 
There is the whole /etc/alternatives on Linux distros just to handle 
various solutions for java, mtas, and other stuff with multiple 
compatible choices. The same or similar can be done.